Islamists

IDF kills terrorist who kidnapped Noa Argamani, Avinatan Or on October 7

Kafina was among those who invaded Israel during the October 7 Massacre, leading a group of terrorists under his command.

|ByMAYA ZANGER-NADIS
Graphic depicts Ahmed Hussein Mohammed Kafina, Commander of the central Gaza area in the terrorist organization Kataeb al-Mujahideen.
An illustrative image of a silhouette over the backdrop of the Hamas flag.

US Treasury sanctions Turkish, British-based Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas financial networks

Washington imposed fresh sanctions targeting what it described as a transnational Hamas financing network, including Muslim Brotherhood affiliates and a Turkish trading company.

|ByJAMES GENN
Motorists drive their vehicles past a political billboard featuring US President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz along Valiasr Square in Tehran on May 26.PremiumPremium

By mistaking delay for diplomacy, the West is again falling into Iran's negotiation trap - analysis

Every ceasefire offers Iran another opportunity to rebuild, while the West mistakes delay for diplomacy

|ByDANNY AYALON, MORAN ALALUF
King Abdullah II of Jordan. Analysts say that the return of the death penalty is intended to send a clear message of deterrence as the kingdom grapples with multiple internal and external challenges.PremiumPremium

'Killing security officers is a red line': Why Jordan brought back the death penalty

The execution of six men convicted of killing security officers in June signals Amman’s tough new approach to terrorism, drug trafficking, and threats to the kingdom’s stability

|ByDANA BEN-SHIMON

Yemeni-Swedish journalist defies death threats, champions Jewish-gay rights

“I had a crazy journey of awakening and enlightenment. De-radicalization is a rough process, and I’m extremely pleased that I cleansed myself of the antisemitism I grew up with,” Ahmed stated.

FEBRUARY 11, 2024ByOHAD MERLIN
Luai Ahmed

Islamist rebels kill at least nine in eastern Congo attacks

FEBRUARY 2, 2024ByREUTERS
A Congolese girl covers her head as she in Rhoe camp for the internally displaced people (IDPs) in Djugu's territory, Ituri's province, north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo April 19, 2023.

Could Islamists, jihadists turn Bangladesh into neo-Taliban state?

Terror org. BNP aims to establish Sharia Law in Bangladesh with the backing of Islamist allies, potentially making the state an antisemitic caliphate. The Biden administration supports the BNP.

DECEMBER 23, 2023BySALAH UDDIN SHOAIB CHOUDHURY
Anti-militancy elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Bangladesh.

Five Islamist convicts escape from Tunisian jail

The interior ministry published the names and photos of the escaped convicts and urged citizens to contact the police if they see them.

OCTOBER 31, 2023ByREUTERS
Police officers stand guard near the site of a suicide bombing attack in downtown Tunis, Tunisia June 27, 2019.

‘All Israelis should receive’ Russian airport treatment, Islamic media figure says

Dilly Hussain also accused Israel of being an “apartheid terrorist entity which burns and decapitates babies, kidnaps children, rapes women.”

OCTOBER 29, 2023ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Dilly Hussain

Israel-Hamas war is just part of the global war on Islamist terror - opinion

Israel and the Jewish people are serving humanity on the front line of what could become a global reckoning for organizations of Islamist terror.

OCTOBER 29, 2023ByDANIEL J. ARBESS
Smoke rises during Israeli airstrikes, in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on October 28, 2023

Hamas's cheerleaders: Why do some in the West back rapists, murderers? - opinion

If anyone in the West believes that endorsing religiously inspired violence will stop at Israel’s gates and will not affect them, they are, at best, being naïve, and at worst, antisemitic.

OCTOBER 23, 2023ByTOVA HERZL
A PRO-PALESTINIAN protester blasts the BBC after it admitted it was wrong to blame Israel for the Al-Ahli Hospital explosion, while another sign calls for ‘Resistance against the Zionist entity,’ in London.

Islamist Israeli MK urges Hamas to free some Gaza captives

"The values of Islam oblige us not to take women, children, and the elderly as captives," said MK Mansour Abbas.

OCTOBER 10, 2023ByREUTERS
Lawmaker Mansour Abbas, head of the United Arab List attends a special session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to approve and swear in a new right-wing government, in Jerusalem December 29, 2022.

Israeli Jewish woman remains kidnapped in Iraq as Iraqi PM at UNGA 

Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped six months ago in Baghdad.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in Iraq earlier this year by Iranian-backed terrorist group Kataib Hezbollah.

11 dead, over 100 injured as clashes continue in Ain al-Hilweh in Lebanon

Lebanon's director general of public security accused Israel of involvement in the violence.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023ByTZVI JOFFRE
A woman and two children walk near the entrance of the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp during Palestinian faction clashes, in Sidon, Lebanon July 31, 2023.